The Devereux Direct Care Training Resources center is a leading provider of training for direct care and behavioral health professionals. As part of its training curricula, Safe & Positive Approaches® is a comprehensive crisis prevention and intervention program designed to promote staff knowledge and competence in preventing, defusing and managing crisis situations. The program, developed by Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health, is utilized throughout the organization’s national treatment network, as well as in more than 130 other behavioral healthcare organizations, school districts and human service settings. Consistent with best practices and empirical literature, Safe & Positive Approaches provides a continuum of intervention built upon a least restrictive philosophical approach. The program’s strong focus on positive and preventive measures aims to reduce and eliminate the use of seclusion and restraint.

Additional offerings include:

An evidence-based performance improvement model for the training and supervision of first-line staff (based on the principles of performance management), and the tools and strategies with which the model is implemented.